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Welcome to Thursday's Ways To Use It challenge. March 22 is World Water Day.Most of us take it for granted.We have instant access to clean, safe water to drink and cook with, to bathe in, to play in, to water our gardens and wash our cars. But 28% of the world's population do not share that luxury.

Damaged ecosystems affect the quantity and quality of water available for human consumption. Today, 2.1 billion people live without safe drinking water at home; affecting their health, education and livelihood. The theme for World Water Day 2018 is ‘Nature for Water’ – exploring nature-based solutions to the water challenges we face in the 21st century.

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If you're not sure how to add a link, here's how:

1. Open 2 windows or tabs: one for your card in the gallery, and one for this thread.
2. In this thread, click on reply and type anything you want to show before the link.
3. Go to your card window. Highlight the address for your card. (It says www. splitcoaststampers.com/gallery/showphoto..... and so on)
4. Click EDIT. Click COPY
5. Go back to this thread. Click PASTE.Here's the link for our WT680gallery.Take a look and spread some love around by leaving comments for your fellow crafters!

Below are some marvelous samples from Sabrina, Cathy and Lisa. Thank you ladies for your beautiful cards!

Carla- thanks for the great challenge! I embossed some trees before dampening my paper and applying the watercolors. Had a rickety looking die cut bike to pair with my stamped bike image and sentiment. Here's Enjoy the Adventure

__________________Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

I confess that I did not make this card today. I had made it awhile ago but never uploaded it to SCS. But it fit today's WT challenge so well that I couldn't resist uploading it now. I'm not very good at watercolor techniques (actually tried one first, but tossed it), so my card depicts some water.

Carla- just had to do another card- this time in soft baby colors- propped up my kanga with dimensionals- and used a cloudy sky embossing folder under my pearlescent watercolor background. Simple embellishments- washi tape and 2 brads/bows. Here's Thankful Kanga

__________________Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

Went mixed media, combining the dappled watercolor background (with shine from pearlescent watercolors) and some alcohol blending (F4A422).
Got the layout idea from my stamping friend Nancy, and dusted off a cute set from Close To My Heart for my hedgehog and sentiment. Here's Smile

__________________Happiness lies in the joy of achievement and the thrill of creative effort. Franklin D. Roosevelt

My card features sparkly, colored embossing paste rain and rain clouds. I colored my white embossing paste with a light shake of Turquoise Brushos and stirred a couple of light shakes of Dazzling Diamonds Glitter. I use a Raindrops stencil to add the paste. I did the same with Grey Brushos for my rain clouds, using a Cloud stencil. Here is my card: A Birthday with Lots of Technique!